If they just want him to be a light comedy relief then stick to that. If they want him to also be a senior officer, they should also portray him as such instead of just calling him one and portraying him like a junior officer or crewman with cutting one worders and mild comedy antics.

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I know you're talking about Keenser... but it sounds like you're talking about NuScotty...

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Lol that's a WHOLE other thing. Been watching TOS on CBS action occasionally. I lament the loss of so much of TOS Scotty's personality...

Scotty in the comic is channeling a bit more of Doohan than the movies and Scotty in STiD was channeling a bit more of Doohan than in the first movie. Maybe we'll get to a happy medium.

But they do have the luxury of spending some time developing the supporting characters in the comics. At least, I hope they will. At present, of the third tier characters only Keenser and Cupcake have had any development; other characters have done little more than deliver a line or two. But there are encouraging signs that Sulu, Chekov, Uhura, Carol, and Scotty will be developed a bit. I don't expect to see Kirk and Carol get together in the comic unless officially sanctioned for the next movie though.

I have to say, I'm not overly fond of the way all the Klingons in the comic now apparently have the same forehead ridges as that one in STID, even down to the piercings. Why can't they have more variety?

I have to say, I'm not overly fond of the way all the Klingons in the comic now apparently have the same forehead ridges as that one in STID, even down to the piercings. Why can't they have more variety?

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Since we haven't seen this type of Klingon before, this is variety. The story is attempting to ride the publicity trail of STiD. Why wouldn't they use the designs from that movie for this particular storyline?

The nature of a "media tie-in".

In all of Trek, like-marked Klingons do seem to congregate. Kor's people all had his skin tones in TOS. All the Klingons in TMP had the spinal column crest look. In ST V, they all had fine, twisty crests. In TNG they were often played by African American actors. And so on.

I have to say, I'm not overly fond of the way all the Klingons in the comic now apparently have the same forehead ridges as that one in STID, even down to the piercings. Why can't they have more variety?

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Reminds me of DC comics' post-STII comics, which brought back Kor but with the TMP Klingon head and costume.

I should point out that we saw somewhat different Abramsverse Klingons (TOS uniforms and wrinkly ridges) in the Nero mini series.

Reminds me of DC comics' post-STII comics, which brought back Kor but with the TMP Klingon head and costume.

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Koloth first in issues 1-2, then Kor in 3-4, with both of their appearances changed. And they killed off Koloth, apparently, though he later came back without explanation, and in his original appearance.

Star Trek #29 is also written by Mike Johnson and overseen by Roberto Orci (with art by Yasmin Liang and a cover by Cat Staggs). In it, the Enterprise's all-new five-year mission continues as Captain Jane Tiberia Kirk and her crew encounter a never-before-seen enemy in deep space. Jane Kirk? IDW promises that all will be explained in this upcoming two-part story that kicks off with Star Trek #29 (which will run 32 pages and cost $3.99).

Either this is an expansion on their "every parallel timeline exists" theory from their Mirror Universe storyline, or they're adapting Marshak & Culbreath's "The Procrustean Petard." Or maybe it's based on that Carol Burnett sketch...

And shouldn't the female equivalent of "Tiberius" be "Vipsania" or "Julia?"

at first look the cover with the two enterprise seem to suggest that the female versions are from another reality but that light in the middle could also mean that the characters from this reality are temporarily genderswapped